US government prohibits civil servants in China relationships with Chinese-Diepresse.com
Employees in US messages and consulates should not enter into « romantic and intimate » relationships with Chinese citizens. The measure is reminiscent of the time of the Cold War.
The US government has banned romantic or intimate relationships with Chinese citizens to its employees as well as their family members and free employees. This reports the US news agency Associated Press (AP), citing initiated persons. The rule is said to have implemented the outgoing US ambassador Nicholas Burns before leaving his post in January. There is no official confirmation.
Burns thus expanded a ban that has existed since last summer that US officials are not allowed to enter into romantic or intimate relationships with Chinese citizens who worked on the US messages and US consulates in China. Now the rule has been expanded to all Chinese.
Real fraternization ban
The former US ambassador may have reacted to the advice of members of the US Congress who described the existing rules than too lax. The news agency writes US officials who already have relationships with Chinese citizens, writes. If the search is rejected, you must either separate yourself from the person in question or give up your position.
Some US authorities have previously stated how such relationships are to be handled. For example, there was an obligation to report to the manager. But there was no real fraternization ban, as was common in times of the Cold War with Russia, China, Cuba and other communist states, according to AP. At that time, the enemy camps often relied on so -called « honey traps »: the seduction by attractive spies to get secret information.
Every citizen can become a spy
Chinese secret services still rely on this tactic, AP writes, citing US diplomats and intelligence experts. Employees are informed of Chinese surveillance and seduction techniques before posting them.
In addition, in principle, every Chinese citizen is obliged to the state to disclose information if he is asked to do so. To do this, the KP leadership often relies on intimidation tactics or even repression. Foreign citizens who enter into a relationship with Chinese therefore expose their partners to be abused as sources of information.
China also intensified regulations
Conversely, China also tightened its rules for diplomatic employees to prevent deep relationships with foreigners. Last year they warned that Chinese state security students with access to sensitive data in front of « beautiful women » and « good -looking men“, Who could recruit the Chinese for espionage for foreign powers. (Red.)
